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Ideal applications include: Applications customers currently run on uniprocessor systems, general business applications including file and print, collaboration and Web serving | Single- or Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® up to 3.0 GHz or Quad-Core Intel Xeon up to 2.83 GHz and up to 1333 MHz front-side bus | Up to 1 GB standard memory/24 GB with VLP ECC DDR II 667 MHz | Up to two internal hot-swap or non-hot-swap solid state, hot- swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA drives |
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Ideal Applications Include: Virtualization, hosted client, general business and enterprise applications | Choice of two Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors, up to 2.93 GHz | Up to 96 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory | Up to 600 GB total internal storage |
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Ideal applications include virtualization and memory-intensive applications | Choice of two Intel® Xeon® 5500 or 5600 series processors; supports advanced, standard, basic and low voltage | Up to 288 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory | Up to 100 GB total internal storage |
IBM BladeCenter HS23 Express
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The IBM® BladeCenter® HS23 gives you the networking capacity needed to manage your data center | Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family, with up to 8 cores, processing up to 16 simultaneous threads | 256 GB at 1333 MHz, 16 DIMM sockets - VLP Registered ECC DDR3, 1600 MHz | 1.0 TB |
IBM BladeCenter HS23E Express
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The IBM® BladeCenter® HS23E provides you the value and versatility you need to manage your data center | Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family, with up to 8 cores, processing up to 16 simultaneous threads | Capacity: 12 DIMM sockets at 192 GB Speed: VLP Registered ECC DDR3, at 1333 or 1600 MHz, memory mirroring and sparing supported |
2 TB (assumes 1 TB drives) |
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Ideal applications include database, virtualization, business intelligence, modeling and simulation and other enterprise applications | 8-core Intel® Xeon® 7500 and 6500 series (up to 2.26 GHz), 6-core Intel Xeon 7500 and 6500 series (up to 2.66 GHz), 4-core Intel Xeon 7500 and 6500 series (up to 1.86 GHz) Up to 2 processors per single-wide HX5; scalable to 4 processors | 16 DDR-3 VLP DIMM slots, capacity up to 128 GB, per single-wide HX5 (scalable up to 640 GB max, at speeds up to 1067 MHz, via 80 DIMM slots, using 2 MAX5 expansion blades) | Up to two solid-state drives per singlewide HX5 |
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